Hi
Our CEO has come up with an 'idea'
He wants to save the formatting of a sheet and export it to a database.
Then, later - retrieve this formatting data and read in data from our 4GL
application so it is formatted in the desired manner (Excel already reads in
the data from 4GL via an addin).
This is so the users only have to push 'one button' to save their formatting
and 'one button' to get it back.

Now this sounded fantastically complicated as who knows what formatting they
will have applied to cells/ranges/sheets and the interrogation would be
excessive. So we thought we would just save a *.xls or *.xlt of the sheet
with formatting and then read the file back in and save it as a binary
object in the database (SQL Server or Oracle). However, I don't see that
there is a way for Excel to be able to read in an XLS/XLT file and write it
to a database. It just deals in TextStreams?

Is this proposal just not possible with Excel and its VBA?

Thanks

Paul